Dutch cities want return to voting machines in next election

By Janene Pieters on March 27, 2017 - 15:55

Ballot box at an Amsterdam polling place for the 2017 Netherlands parliamentary election. NL Times

The vast majority of Dutch municipalities want to go back to using voting machines in the next election, according to a survey by NOS among 235 municipalities. A massive 90 percent of them want the use of voting machines to be reintroduced as soon as possible, if that can be done safely.

According to Minister Ronald Plasterk of Home Affairs, electronic voting is too expensive and the risk of hacking is too high. Last year the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, voted against the reintroduction of voting machines.